On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 00:53 -0700, Patrick Burroughs wrote: > Personally, if it wasn't for HTML5 I wouldn't be able to use YouTube. > My laptop is ancient and decrepit, and cannot handle Flash on Linux, > but the <video> element works just fine, and loads as fast as I'm used > to Flash video loading. Maybe there's a bit of a slowdown versus Flash > if you have a cutting-edge system, but not everyone is in that > situation. I don't care much about performance, but what is irritating is that whenever some website loads anything flash-related, my CPU gets speedstepped to max frequency and my laptop fan prepares my laptop for a takeoff. When you're on battery, this can mean you'll lose half of battery runtime, just by having a browser window open that includes a flash banner. This isn't only a problem on x86_64, but on every non-windows platform. Maybe it extends to windows also, but I haven't tested that in years. Besides the performance problem, flash also makes browsers unstable. I'm very happy with the out-of-process plugins in Firefox 3.6.4 prereleases, it's just too bad that I don't use firefox for daily browsing.
